Some Friday inspiration for you all. The Artificial Leaf turns sunlight and water into usable energy, which has...

If plants can use nothing but sunlight as their energy source, why couldn’t we use a similar process to power the world? That’s the question chemist and MIT professor Dan Nocera asked himself before embarking on a research project that focused on the creation of an “artificial leaf” that mimics photosynthesis in plants for use in a decentralized energy system. His team devised a simple formula to save the planet: sunlight + water = energy for the world.